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- ******* THE BERLIN CLOCK *******
-
- by R÷bbe Wⁿnschiers
- *version 1.1*
-
- *** The Clock ***
- The Berlin-Uhr is a registered trademark by D. Binninger who invented it in
- the seventies. It was originally installed in 1975 at the Kurfⁿrstendamm in
- Berlin. Due to technical problems and the running costs of roughly 5000 Euro
- the clock was switched off in 1995. One year later the clock was reinstalled
- close to the Europa Center in front of the tourist information and is
- presently sponsored by merchants within the Europa Center.
-
- *** The Principle ***
- The Berlin-Uhr is based on the principles of quantity didactics and with this
- its the first of its kind. The time is calculated by adding the lit
- rectangular lamps. The top lamp is blinking in the rhythm of the seconds. The
- upper row of four lamps represent 5 hours each. The four lamps in the row
- below indicate one full hour each. Three burning lamps in the first row and
- two in the second account for (5+5+5+1+1) 17 hours, which is 5pm. The third
- row of eleven tall lamps represent 5 minutes. In the original version of the
- clock the 3rd, 6th, and 9th are red colored indicating the quarter hours
- where as the other lamps are yellow. In the last row every lamp represents
- 1 minute.
-
- *** Replica ***
- I know only of one replica of the clock: it is run by a banking company in
- Oldenburg/Germany close to the Lamberti church.
-
- *** My Project ***
- Some 15 years ago or so I tried to build my own version of the clock using
- digital electronics with CMOS chips. The clock run well - except occasional
- miss ticks: for example at midnight, there was a strange ghost at work and
- the clock went wrong. I could not figure out the problem and dropped it
- after a while in favor of a other projects. So after that hard (-ware) way,
- the soft (-ware) way finally was fruitful with version 1.0.
-
-
- *** Installation ***
- The program comes zipped with two files. The file you just read (readme.txt)
- needs not to be on the Psion. The file berlin11.sis can be executed from
- the PC (if you have PsiWin) or from the Psion Series 5. It will create the
- folder berlin11 in the ...\apps\ folder. A program icon named either B-Uhr
- (German Psion) or B-Clock (English Psion) will then appear in the extras menu.
-
-
- *** Terms of usage ***
- Feel free to use and distribute the program when you agree to:
-
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- ** not to sell it ** keep the package together **
- ** tell me were you place it for download **
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-
- Any comments are welcome! I do not take any responsibility for the results of
- using the program, neither physically, nor mentally.
-
- Contact me: rw@biowasserstoff.de
- New versions can be found at http://members.tripod.de/roebbe/